This Pentacon 50/1.8 lens my wife brought home from the fleemarket is growing on me. It cost very little together with the Praktica-camera, and was a bit smashed in the filterthreads (I fixed this brutally by forcing a broken filters ring on the front on the lens = new filterthreads). Maybe you saw the bokeh-shots? Well, here’s a tulip I shot at my wifes exhibition.


Those Pentacon lenses are an absolute bargain, I have about 6 that I got before I started to collect my Soviet stuff, 24/2.8, 29/2.8, 30/3.5, 50/1.8, 135/2.8, 200/4, and they are all good quality and capable of giving super results and I still use them all on a regular basis too. I would really love the 300mm Meyer/Pentacon but they are quite expensive now, people have realised the quality is good